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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 238

May 17, 20015 counties in Kansas; 40 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 17, 2001, 1:15 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas; 40 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 2001, 1:15 PM CDT (18:15 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 45 counties

Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Sullivan County, MO

Warnings issued inside it

24 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 1:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Grundy, Linn	57 min
May 17, 1:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Ray	40 min
May 17, 1:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll	49 min
May 17, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	37 min
May 17, 2:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay	40 min
May 17, 2:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	114 min
May 17, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Wyandotte	50 min
May 17, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Chariton	42 min
May 17, 2:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Livingston	2 hr
May 17, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay, Jackson	42 min
May 17, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette, Ray	50 min
May 17, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	56 min
May 17, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard	40 min
May 17, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Miami	48 min
May 17, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard	44 min
May 17, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Boone	56 min
May 17, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis	65 min
May 17, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Howard	45 min
May 17, 4:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Boone	40 min
May 17, 4:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Carroll	114 min
May 17, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Boone	42 min
May 17, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates	37 min
May 17, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, St. Clair	50 min
May 17, 5:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Boone	2 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 156 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2833 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 22 more	5 hr
May 17, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford	5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2001 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2001

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.